Six men scattered across Italy share something extraordinary with Leonardo da Vinci: the same Y chromosome that passed, father to son, through at least 15 generations of the da Vinci family.

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between ...

Newly generated, complete "end-to-end" reference genomes for the sex chromosomes of five great ape species and one lesser ape species—produced by an international collaborative team led by researchers ...